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    A Troubling Time Omari Samir Dickerson The Color Purple published 1982 This book is set back in the 20 century it is about a girl named Celie who writes her letters to God about her life and things she has dealt with since she was a child. When she was a little girl her father used to abuse her and also rape her while her mother fell sick. Soon after her mother died Celie had a child by her father and he set it up for adoption but he had her to believe that he killed it. Time went by and she…

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    Color Purple Gender Roles

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    The Color Purple is a novel by Alice Walker in 1982. The principal character and narrator of the story, Celie is a fourteen year old girl who encounters emotional, psychological and physical torment on account of the men throughout her life. She is impregnated twice by her step father Alphonso and sold to a chauvinistic man named Mister, who regularly beats and sexually assaults her. Henceforth, Alice Walker expands upon a focal topic of the novel i.e. the state of women and their normative…

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    In The Color Purple, the setting changes and gives a sense of perspective through the eyes of Celie and Nettie. The setting first starts at Celie and Nettie’s home, where Celie’s father consecutively raped her. Celie’s vulnerability begins in these tragic moments as a child. The setting makes a change to Albert’s house where Celie is forced to become his wife and be his maid. She is abused and raped by Albert, consequently, changing Celie’s emotions. She is no longer a happy young girl. As Celie…

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    In the book the color purple, Alice Walker creates the character through self discovery and love through the descriptive journal entries of Celie growing up into a woman. This story is narrated by Celie, a character unsure of who she is truly and who she can trust. In the beginning, Celie is a controlled young girl at the age of fourteen crippled by the weight of the world on her shoulders. After her mother dies she is even more afraid and has even bigger responsibilities. Celie is afraid of…

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    The Color Purple portrays a lot of different female characters throughout the novel. We see a variety of personalities from all of the different female characters that come in and out of play during this book. Some of women are strong and independent, such as Sofia and Shug. On the other hand, Celie is a very reserved and disrespected to start out, but turn into strong, independent women as the story goes on. This book is an accurate representation of the two typical women you would find…

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    Hair Color Styles Ideas: Beautiful Shades To Inspire The Next 'Do Hair colour enthusiasts, pay attention - if you are improving your hue for that approaching spring several weeks or varying your shade for any style overhaul, why don't you take a look at these chic celebrity styles to enable you to get inspired... Altering hair colour can modify your thing - but you may never know that is your very best-suited shade until you have done just a little experimentation. So that will help you limit…

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    misses school. He plays his music too loudly and owns a gun. He probably has a criminal record. Now, what skin color do each of these students have? Assuming that the second student is black just because of the violent nature of his life is racist. This kind of assumption is’t just a problem for students and their chances of getting into college, but it’s a problem that people of color face everyday. For example, on February 23, a black couple was fatally shot by the police. Both the man,…

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    Theories of Color Vision The visual abilities of human beings are incredibly fascinating. We can view a large range of color from a small choice of wavelengths along the electromagnetic spectrum, 400nm-700nm. Our understanding of this perception of color comes from two major theories Tri-chromatic theory of color vision and opponent-process theory. Both theories have their merits and one actually grew out of the other. The first theory proposed was the tri-chromatic theory. The tri-chromatic…

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    Skin Color Evolution

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    greatest biological adaptations of the humans is skin color. Today, there are 7 billion different skin tones since no skin color is identical. However, in Africa, 100 thousand years ago that was certainly not the case.[Bryce] The evolution of skin color over the past 100 thousand years is due to the combination of three factors: skin exposure, ultraviolet rays, and Vitamin D. [Jablonski and Chaplin] These factors attribute to the wide spectrum of skin colors seen across the globe and explains…

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    Skin Color Differences

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    that some of us are less privileged due to our skin color but also our sexuality or our preference for a…

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